proprium
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Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Hinc est quod Exod. iii., proprium nomen Dei ponitur esse qui est, quia ejus solius proprium est, quod sua substantia non sit aliud quam suum esse.”—St.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
Martialem acumine, quod proprium Latinorum, et peculiare tunc fieri cœpit, valere; adeoque Catullum toto corpore epigrammatis esse conspicuum, Martialem clausula præcipue, atque ultimo fine, in quo relinquat, cum delectatione, aculeum spectari516.”
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
His idem propositum fuit quod regibus, ut ne qua re egerent, ne cui parerent, libertate uterentur; cujus proprium est sic vivere ut velis.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
To preserve intact the latter distinction, the proprium of the Son and His personal subsistence had to be kept distinct from the proprium and subsistence of the Father.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)